Laws and Explanations; Theories and Modal Possibilities
The book has two parts: In the first, after a review of some seminal classical accounts of laws and explanations, a new account is proposed for distinguishing between laws and accidental generalizations (LAG). Among the new consequences of this proposal it is proved that any explanation of a conting...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2019.
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Σειρά: | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ;
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Part I: Appreciating and Burnishing the Past
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. C.Hempel: In the beginning ...
- Chapter 3. Laws and their corresponding counterfactuals; an untenable connection
- Chapter 4. F. Dretske's Total rejection of the Hempel model. Universals and Magnitudes to the rescue
- Chapter 5. Prelude to D.Armstrong: A mathematical movement which inspired Ramsey, and left Russell and Armstrong unmoved
- Chapter 6. D.Armstrong's account of laws. Identity lost, regained, and lost again
- Part II: The Relatvization of Laws to Theoretical scenarios, Schematic Theories and Physical and Nomic modals
- Chapter 7. Laws and Accidental Generalizations. A new, minimal theory of the difference
- Chapter 8. E. Nagel and R. B. Braithwaite. Two neglected radical and radically different theories: one inspired by Hilbert, the other by Ramsey
- Chapter 9. D. Hilbert's Architectural structuralism, and Schematic Theories
- Chapter 10. Theories, their magnitude spaces, and the physical possibilities they provide
- Chapter 11. Theories, laws, and nomic possibilities (modals)
- Chapter 12. Schematic theories, subsumtion of laws, and non-accidental generalizations.
